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No. 311.702. Patented Feb. 3, 1885.

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SPECIPIGATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 311,702, dated February 3, 1885.

Application filed July 9, 1884.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOSEPI-IUS T. WILLIs, of Cuba Station, Sumter county, Alabama, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Scissors, of which the following isa full, clear, and exact description.

This invention consists in the construction and arrangement of parts, as will be hereinafter fully described and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 represents a side view of a pair of scissors,upon an enlarged scale, for the use for which they are more especially designed, embodying my invention, and showing the blades as open. Fig. 2 is a top View of the scissors when the blades are closed and secured in such position; and Fig. 3 is a side view, upon a reduced seal 0, of said scissors when closed.

A A indicate the blades of the scissors pivoted at b. The bladeA is provided at its handle end with a ring or loop, 0, of sufficient diameter to tightly fit, without inconvenience, the portion of the forefinger of the operator which lies between the first and second joints, so that the scissors may be worn, ready for use, by the person having need of them. This ring or loop will of course vary in size to suit different-sized forefingers. Attached to the under side of said ring or loop 0 is a bow or rest, d. The other blade, A, is provided on its handle end with a knob or thumb piece, 0. The two blades are forced open by spring tension or pressure, and for this purpose l have shown a flat metallic spring, 13- such, for instance, as is used in a more lengthened form for the inainspring of a watch or small timepiece. This spring 13,1 removably engage at its one end with the handle end of the blade A, where the finger-rest (Z joins the back lower portion of the ring 0, and bending it partly around said ring pass it through aguide or small slotted projection, f, on the back portion of the ring, from whence said spring is passed up to freely engage at its opposite end with a notched por- (ModeL) tion, of the handle end of the blade A, on the under side thereof. This construction and mode of applying the openingspring has the advantage, not only of facilitating the removal of the spring when required to replace it by another in case of breakage, or of re moving it altogether, if desired at any time to use the scissors without it; but when the two blades are closed said spring will to close snugly around the upper back portion of the finger-ring on the one blade, and between the handles of the two blades, so as to be entirely out of the way and free from catching or being caught on any exterior ob ject, as shown in Fig. 3. The spring, how ever, may be otherwise constructed and applied, if preferred, to have a like opening ac tion on the blades.

Attached to the front end of the under blade,

may be turned up over the front end of the other blade, A, when the blades are closed, to hold them closed, when necessary, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3.

To use the scissors the ring 0 of the blade A is slid by the operator to a close or snug fit onto his forefinger, between the first and second joints thereof, when by pressing down with his thumb on the knob c of the blade A, and supporting, it necessary, the blade A by the rest (Z on the fingers next to the forefinger,the blades of the scissors,kept open ready for use by the spring B,will be closed on each other to make the out, after which, and on removing pressure from the thumbpiece 6, the blades will be thrown open again by the spring, ready for another cut.

Scissors thus constructed will not only be very easy to manipulate, but they may be worn on the finger, ready for use at any time, without interfering with any work that clerks in retail clrygoods stores-and others would ordinarily have to do.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. ln a-pair of scissors, the combination of the pivoted blades A A, the finger-ring c, with its attached finger-rest (Z, on the han dle-end portion of the blade A, the knob or A, is a pendent ring, hook, or loop, h,whiclr thumb-piece e on the ha11dle-end portion of I ment with or over the forward end of the other the blade A, and the fiatspring B, essentially of said blades, whereby the blades may be IO as shown and described. kept closed against the tension of the opening- 2. In a pair of scissors in which a spring spring, substantially as specified.

5 is combined with the pivoted blades to throw J OSEPHUS T. WILLIS.

the blades open, the combination, with said Witnesses: v parts, of a pendent fastening attached to the I J. K. P. SHELTON, forward end of one of said blades for engage- P. M. J ONES. 

